Skip to content
On DoD cover art

All Episodes

On DoD — 105 episodes · page 1 of 2

#
Title
1

Improving the employee onboarding process across the Office of the Secretary of Defense

2

Where we stand on DoD's long path toward a clean financial audit

3

Navy's sustainment system refocuses on real-world readiness

4

In Japan, half of military spouse health workers unemployed amid 'shortage' of providers

5

Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland on the Defense Health Agency's new strategic plan

6

Commercial technologies are about to completely redefine IT capabilities in the Navy's afloat community

7

Secret-level version of Microsoft 365 rolls out to top Pentagon offices as new OSD CIO marks its one-year anniversary

8

Navy says it's achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to 'fix our computers'

9

DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system

10

Pentagon has a new plan for 'customer-led' IT service delivery

11

An update on DoD's deployment of MHS Genesis

12

A progress report from the commission tasked with overhauling DoD's 60-year-old budgeting process

13

Air Force finds ways to bake cybersecurity into weapons systems, and bolt it on where necessary

14

How DoD's own budget process keeps the military on the wrong side of the 'valley of death'

15

Getting to work on fixes to the Pentagon's broken budgeting system

16

New initiatives to bring small businesses into the Army technology ecosystem, and a big acceleration of BYOD

17

To institutionalize DevSecOps, Navy's Black Pearl aims to 'commoditize the boring stuff'

18

One reason Navy ship maintenance is taking too long: workers stuck waiting for supplies

19

Five years into DoD financial audits, progress has stalled

20

Va. National Guard's 'Smart Weapon' aims to stop wasting airmen's time on paperwork

21

Federal News Network Special Report | Nowhere safe to hide: What online harassment is doing to service members and the military

22

How the Pentagon's first chief software officer sees the state of software management in DoD

23

The logistics of fuel storage in INDOPACOM and the military's moving contract

24

DoD's Danielle Metz on how the multibillion dollar JWCC cloud contract will actually work

25

Army's DEVCOM takes 'future of work' from concept to reality

26

DoD's new moving contract and the Army's new unified network plan

27

Demystifying Other Transaction Agreements

28

Top priorities for two of the Pentagon's newest senior technology executives

29

DAU leadership's take on the future of Defense acquisition

30

New approach to Navy readiness gives leaders ways to measure bang for bucks

31

Why the fighting force is 'ever shrinking' despite robust Defense budgets

32

RIP Commercial Virtual Remote, the tool that forced DoD to behave like an IT enterprise

33

13 ways the Defense Department needs to tighten its oversight of other transaction agreements

34

Army’s top R&D command charts a course for post-pandemic telework

35

A plain language version of what DoD's latest financial audit found

36

What DoD's new Adaptive Acquisition Framework really means

37

New financing could start to improve Army housing as soon as this summer

38

The Defense Production Act and how the Biden administration might use it

39

Big changes coming to how the Navy and Marine Corps buy cloud computing services

40

How the Navy is using data analytics, AI to boost aviation readiness

41

Pentagon can't fix software acquisition until it gains a better understanding of its own workforce

42

Navy came late to the OTA game, but spending on IT, cyber now 'exploding'

43

DoD's Space Development Agency shows how fast the FAR can be

44

Army cutting costs by sharing services with local communities

45

Gearing up for great power competition also helped the Air Force prepare for COVID-19

46

How the Army is rethinking its financial managment systems (it's not just an IT problem)

47

Unresolved IG recommendations piling up at DoD

48

Pentagon CMO claims billions more in savings as Congress seeks to eliminate the position

49

Pentagon IG offers advice for effective contracting during pandemic

50

Navy aims to unify its IT networks with NGEN-R contract

51

Federal agencies apply supercomputing resources toward COVID-19 pandemic

52

Pentagon releases last of four solicitations to test 5G technologies

53

Nearly 200 military doctors, nurses graduating early to help with coronavirus

54

Navy's 'RAISED' process aims to reduce cybersecurity approval processes from months to one day

55

Defense Innovation Unit picks 5 commerical companies to help military counter small drones

56

DIU picks 5 commerical companies to help military counter small drones

57

2019 Pentagon audit shows some signs of progress, OIG says

58

Pivotal year for overhaul of Army's contracting IT systems

59

Army's Project Sentinel aims to fix authorization bottleneck for IT systems

60

Family and supply chain issues join Pentagon's top management challenges this year

61

Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher and Maj. Gen. David Bassett on the Army's integrated tactical network

62

With new ad campaign, Army wants to highlight its 'breadth and depth'

63

Dr. Bruce Jette, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology

64

How the Army will 'ruthlessly' enforce its forthcoming data strategy

65

Building a 'Digital Air Force'

66

Navy's new 'strategic' approach to supplier management

67

DoD IG's ADR program yields major increase in resolved whistleblower claims

68

Army to select three vendors to start overhauling IT on its bases

69

Army Secretary Mark Esper; Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, commander, Combat Capability Development Command

70

Modernizing military training in the sea services

71

The Air Force's new plan to dig out of a $33 billion facility maintenance backlog

72

A narrowing supply base for spare parts challenges the Pentagon

73

Why the Pentagon invested research dollars into warp drive, wormholes and invisibility cloaking

74

The Navy's new approaches to identity management, cloud computing

75

The 6 most serious problems uncovered by DoD's first financial audit

76

Pentagon's top management challenges; Navy's latest plan for "maritime superiority"

77

JEDI protests: one down, but possibly several more to go

78

Two senior officials describe what's next for the Army's tactical network

79

DoD's Joint Task Force Civil Support has a small footprint in a no-fail mission

80

To improve civilian personnel system, DoD says it needs to start with it HR workforce

81

Army uses unconventional challenge process to advance data science for electronic warfare

82

Pentagon IG highlights more than 1,500 open recommendations, some dating back a decade

83

Army begins moving cyber exercises from sterile "ranges" to a real city

84

The biggest challenges in setting up the new Army Futures Command are still ahead

85

A few of the acquisition experts who helped inform our series on other transaction authorities

86

With an emphasis on speed, Navy's $100 million OTA for information warfare aims for two-way relationship with IT innovators

87

DoD's latest plan to manage its "total force" of servicemembers, civilians and contractors

88

NAVSUP looks for ways to turn data into better business decisions

89

Section 809 panel's recommendations not just sitting on the shelf

90

Amid mandate to move to milCloud, DISA offers tools to smooth the transition

91

In DoD, a new approach to testing weapons systems for cybersecurity

92

A conversation with the personnel chiefs of each of the sea services

93

How the Army plans to compress its IT acquisition process into under a month

94

DoD Inspector General Glenn Fine; Army uses IT to make its headquarters orgs more efficient

95

How DoD is using Code.mil to kickstart open source software for Defense

96

Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, Navy CIO on cloud computing and "Compile-to-Combat in 24 hours"

97

Amid wave of Army data center closures, ALTESS is "staging area" for apps not ready to move to cloud

98

Air Force's new Installation and Mission Support Center marks full operational capability; IBM brings AI into Army logistics

99

Army sets out on two-year effort to standardize IT in combat formations

100

Cybersecurity: Elevating CYBERCOM, and DoD's latest bug bounty